Beyond the World Bank agenda : an institutional approach to development /

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Author / Creator:	Stein, Howard, 1952-
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description:	xviii, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	World Bank. World Bank. Economic development -- Developing countries. Institutional economics. Economic development. Institutional economics. Developing countries.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy 2 has original dustjacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7261428

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ISBN:	9780226771670 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226771679 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-325) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Reflections on the History of the World Bank Agenda
Chapter 1. The Ascendancy of Economics in the World Bank, 1944-1979: From Infrastructure to Structural Adjustment
Chapter 2. From Structural Adjustment to "Poverty Reduction": Adjustment to the Crisis and the Crisis of Adjustment after 1980
II. Economic Theory and the World Bank Agenda: A Critical Evaluation
Chapter 3. Economic Theory and Orthodox Reform: Critical Reflections on Structural Adjustment
Chapter 4. Institutions and the "Missing Link" in the World Bank's Strategy: Toward a Critique
III. Beyond the World Bank Agenda: An Institutional Approach to Development
Chapter 5. Building on Lost Foundations: The Institutional Matrix and Socioeconomic Development
Chapter 6. State Formation as an Institutional Phenomenon
Chapter 7. An Institutional Approach to Financial Development
Chapter 8. Transcending Neoliberal Health Policies
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Beyond the World Bank Agenda
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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